Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Parent taxon: Nuculana according to E. J. Moore 1983
See also Coan et al. 2000, Grant, IV and Gale 1931, Hertlein and Grant 1972 and Huber 2010
Sister taxa: Nuculana (Borissia), Nuculana (Costanuculana), Nuculana (Dacryomya), Nuculana (Politoleda), Nuculana (Praesaccella), Nuculana (Scaeoleda), Nuculana (Tenuileda), Nuculana (Thestyleda), Nuculana acuta, Nuculana acutilineata, Nuculana akidota, Nuculana alpina, Nuculana andrewi, Nuculana antarctirostrata, Nuculana asiatica, Nuculana biangulata, Nuculana chapmani, Nuculana coelatella, Nuculana concentrica, Nuculana cowlitzensis, Nuculana crassiparva, Nuculana cultellus, Nuculana cuneata, Nuculana curvirostris, Nuculana decora, Nuculana dewalquei, Nuculana doris, Nuculana elmana, Nuculana emarginata, Nuculana etheridgei, Nuculana excavata, Nuculana fluvilutea, Nuculana forcarti, Nuculana gnomon, Nuculana gracillima, Nuculana grasslei, Nuculana jamaicensis, Nuculana konishii, Nuculana liciata, Nuculana longifrons, Nuculana mariae, Nuculana miaocunensis, Nuculana minima, Nuculana minuta, Nuculana moriyai, Nuculana multilineata, Nuculana oxia, Nuculana oxyrhyncha, Nuculana parkei, Nuculana parva, Nuculana penita, Nuculana pernula, Nuculana posterolaevia, Nuculana probellula, Nuculana redondoensis, Nuculana rostellata, Nuculana rostratruncata, Nuculana semen, Nuculana semicrenulata, Nuculana smithvillensis, Nuculana socialis, Nuculana spheniopsis, Nuculana sphenopsis, Nuculana thompsoni, Nuculana timorensis, Nuculana triangulata, Nuculana trivitate, Nuculana trumani, Nuculana undulostriata, Nuculana verrilliana, Nuculana vexillata, Nuculana virgo, Nuculana vitrea, Nuculana waterhousei, Nuculana wautebbeana, Nuculana wautubbeana, Nuculana waynensis, Nuculana whitmani, Nuculana willamettensis, Nuculana willetti, Nuculana zieteni, Crassoleda crassatelloides, Leda bavarica, Leda deffneri, Leda reussi, Leda cochlearella, Leda plana, Leda ingens, Leda crassiparva, Leda truncata, Leda striatella, Leda zitteli, Leda vaticani, Leda wissmanniana, Leda subquadrata, Leda coelata, Leda renevieri, Leda nitida, Leda stewardi, Leda distincta, Leda excavata, Leda gabrielis, Leda zelima, Leda minuta, Leda willamettensis, Leda calcarensis, Leda longifrons, Leda opulenta, Leda magnopsis, Leda praeradiata, Leda dijki, Leda haunsbergensis, Leda polynominata, Leda trumani, Leda pistorupes, Leda siegsdorfensis, Leda subtrigonalis, Leda vanuxemi, Leda catasarca, Leda carolinensis, Leda subtrigona, Leda rangei, Leda scalata, Leda sulcellata, Leda becki, Leda (Spinula), Leda lacryma, Leda elliptica, Leda alkiensis, Leda kittensis, Leda claviformis, Leda doris, Leda pygmaea, Leda magna, Leda ozarkola, Leda transversa, Leda coelatoides, Leda parkei, Leda glabra, Leda decorata, Leda schiavi, Leda radiata, Leda wautubbeana, Leda (Lembulus), Leda caudata, Nucula (Leda) subzelima, Leda semipolita, Leda minuta, Leda barranca, Leda obolella, Leda houstonia, Leda semistriata, Leda (Leda), Leda oxyrhyncha, Leda scutula, Leda discors, Leda whitfieldi, Leda semenoides, Leda projecta, Leda borsoni, Leda leia, Leda striatula
Subtaxa: Nuculana (Nuculana) arenicola Nuculana (Nuculana) confusa Nuculana (Nuculana) elongorostrata Nuculana (Nuculana) extenuata Nuculana (Nuculana) fossa Nuculana (Nuculana) grandensis Nuculana (Nuculana) hamata Nuculana (Nuculana) leonina Nuculana (Nuculana) minuta Nuculana (Nuculana) naibandensis Nuculana (Nuculana) navisa Nuculana (Nuculana) odiyamensis Nuculana (Nuculana) senni Nuculana (Nuculana) tenuisulcata
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal deposit feeder-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (2: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador collections), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (13: Alaska, California, Maine)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Malaysia (7)
• Pliocene of Japan (1), United States (4: California)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Chile (2), Japan (2), Morocco (2), the Russian Federation (13)
• Oligocene of the Russian Federation (4), United States (1: Alaska)
• Eocene of Barbados (3), the Russian Federation (3)
• Paleocene of the Russian Federation (1)
• Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Egypt (1), India (3), Japan (3), Jordan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (5: California, South Dakota, Texas)
• Triassic of Iran (10), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
Total: 89 collections including 113 occurrences